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Life After Bariatric Surgery

What to Expect After Weight Loss Surgery

It's imperative that patients maintain a healthy lifestyle after undergoing weight loss surgery. Patients must adopt a sensible diet and exercise plan and meet with the doctor regularly after surgery in order to enjoy optimal weight loss results. The team at My Bariatric Solutions has created a comprehensive handbook for weight loss surgery patients that includes a timetable for follow-up visits, including lap-band fills, and to help monitor their progress.

Patient Handbook

The My Bariatric Solutions handbook is a comprehensive guide for patients to consult both before and after their weight loss surgery. The handbook includes information on the following topics:

Preparing for your bariatric surgery

Your surgery day

What to expect after surgery

Dietary guidelines

Exercise guidelines

Long-term follow-up

Support groups

Follow-Up Visits: A Lifetime Commitment

When you commit to weight loss surgery at My Bariatric Solutions, serving the Dallas / Ft. Worth Metroplex, you are also committing to follow-up care. Our team wants to work closely with you as you strive to reach and maintain your health goals. It is very important to attend your scheduled follow-up visits; this is crucial to the evaluation of your health and necessary to achieving your weight loss goals.

The required follow-up visit pattern after bariatric surgery is as follows:

Five to seven days: initial post-operative evaluation

One month: physician evaluation; psychological and nutritional follow up as needed

Dr. Stowers strives to make people healthier through weight loss surgery and leads a team of multi-disciplinary professionals who specialize in the causes and complications of obesity, its treatment, and related issues. Our specialists include a bariatric nurse coordinator, registered dietitian, an exercise physiologist and multiple psychologists who work to accomplish successful results based on 14 years of bariatric surgery experience.